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Architecture and Energy: Performance and Style

by William W. Braham & Daniel Willis

Does energy consumption influence architectural style? Should more energy-efficient buildings look different? Can that "look" be used to explain or enhance their performance?

Architecture and Energy provides...

Policy, Planning, and People: Promoting Justice in Urban Development

by Naomi Carmon & Susan S. Fainstein

Policy, Planning, and People presents original essays by leading authorities in the field of urban policy and planning. The volume includes theoretical and practice-based essays that integrate social equity...

The Green Museum: A Primer on Environmental Practice

by Sarah S. Brophy & Elizabeth Wylie

The Green Museum remains the leading handbook for museums seeking to learn ways to implement environmentally sustainable practices at their institutions. This new edition features updated standards, techniques,...

Interrogating Feminist Understandings of the Urban

by Linda Peake & Martina Rieker

In Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban, Linda Peake and Martina Rieker embark on an ambitious project to explore the extent to which a feminist re-imagining of the twenty-first century city can...

Libraries

by Ken Worpole

Focusing on the practical issues which need to be addressed by anyone involved in library design, here Ken Worpole offers his renowned expertise to architects, planners, library professionals, students, local...

Cities and Nature

by Lisa Benton-Short & John Rennie Short

Cities and Nature connects environmental processes with social and political actions. The book reconnects science and social science to demonstrate how the city is part of the environment and how it is subject...

Durability of Building Materials and Components: Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference

by J.M. Baker, H. Davies & A.J. Majumdar

This book is the Proceedings of the fifth in the major series of triennial international conferences on the Durability of Building Materials and Components. It includes reports on current research into the causes,...

Energy Management and Operating Costs in Buildings

by Keith Moss

Managing the consumption and conservation of energy in buildings must now become the concern of both building managers and occupants. The provision of lighting, hot water supply, communications, cooking, space...

Investment, Procurement and Performance in Construction: The First National Rics Research Conference

by P.S. Brandon, T. Mole & P. Venmore-Rowland

The proceedings of a major conference on the built environment ran by the RICS to examine recent research and development in: investment; building procurement and construction; and building performance analysis....

Landscape and Sustainability

by John F. Benson & Maggie H. Roe

This unique book is about landscape, sustainability and the practices of the professions which plan, design and manage landscapes at many scales and in many locations; urban, suburban and rural. Despite the...

Great City Parks

by Alan Tate

Great City Parks is a celebration of some of the finest achievements of landscape architecture in the public realm. It is a comparative study of twenty significant public parks in fourteen major cities across...

Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and Digital Spaces

by Nicos Komninos

At the turn of the century some cities and regions in Europe, Japan and the USA, displayed an exceptional capacity to incubate and develop new knowledge and innovations. The favourable environment for research,...

Global Warming and the Built Environment

by D.K. Prasad & R. Samuels

The role of the built environment on global warming is seen to be of increasing relevance. In this book, contributors of international repute offer a wide perspectivet on the subject. This new paperback edition...

Dispute Resolution and Conflict Management in Construction: An International Perspective

by Edward Davies, Peter Fenn & Michael O'Shea

Many construction conflicts and disputes are not limited to particular jurisdictions or cultures, but are increasingly becoming common across the industry worldwide. This book is an invaluable guide to international...

Whose Public Space?: International Case Studies in Urban Design and Development

by Ali Madanipour

Public spaces mirror the complexities of urban societies: as historic social bonds have weakened and cities have become collections of individuals public open spaces have also changed from being embedded in...

Architects' Guide to Fee Bidding

by M. Paul Nicholson

Fee bidding still generates emotive reactions from within many sections of the architectural profession. Fee bidding is not taught in most schools of architecture, so practitioners generally rely on hunches...

Interpretation in Architecture: Design as Way of Thinking

by Adrian Snodgrass & Richard Coyne

Drawing on cultural theory, phenomenology and concepts from Asian art and philosophy, this book reflects on the role of interpretation in the act of architectural creation, bringing an intellectual and scholarly...

Landscape Architecture

by Barry Starke & John Ormsbee Simonds

The most comprehensive, current guide to the theoryand practice of landscape architecture

For more than 50 years, this pioneering guide has served as the foremost resource on the principles and practices of landscape...

Whose Urban Renaissance?: An international comparison of urban regeneration strategies

by Libby Porter & Kate Shaw

The desire of governments for a 'renaissance' of their cities is a defining feature of contemporary urban policy. From Melbourne and Toronto to Johannesburg and Istanbul, government policies are successfully...

Loose Space: Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life

by Karen Franck & Quentin Stevens

In cities around the world people use a variety of public spaces to relax, to protest, to buy and sell, to experiment and to celebrate. Loose Space explores the many ways that urban residents, with creativity...